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<h3 class="post-title">Groovy Goodness: Automatic Return Value Casting</h3>

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<p>If Groovy knows the return type of a method it will automatically cast our return value to that type. We don't have to explicitly cast our value.</p>
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String simple() {
    42
}
assert 'java.lang.String' == simple().class.name 
assert '42' == simple()

class User {
    String name, email
}

User createUser() { 
    [name: 'mrhaki', email: 'mail@host.com']
}
assert createUser() instanceof User
assert 'mrhaki' == createUser().name
assert 'mail@host.com' == createUser().email
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